About Wild Kids Forest School

Wild Kids Vision

Wild Kids Forest School aims to provide authentic Forest School to communities and families regardless of background. Making groups financially accessible with a community focus. We aim to create communities that love nature and help each other. By engaging with communities that are hard to reach and struggle to access forest school we will make the field truly inclusive and help grow the physical, mental and social health of all.

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What is Forest School?

Forest School is outdoor, nature-based learning that focuses on the holistic development of the child. It is a regular, long-term process as opposed to one-off sessions and is facilitated by qualified forest school practitioners. Forest School is child-centred with a high adult to child ratio. Observation, rather than direction, is key and means that our sessions are adapted and tailored to the needs we observe with the groups we work with.

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Principles of Forest School

At Wild Kids Forest School, we support and abide by the six principles of Forest School, laid out by the UK Forest School Association.

1. Forest School is a long-term process of frequent and regular sessions in a woodland or natural environment, rather than a one-off visit. Planning, adaptation, observations and reviewing are integral elements of Forest School.

2. Forest School takes place in a woodland or natural wooded environment to support the development of a relationship between the learner and the natural world

3. Forest School offers learners the opportunity to take supported risks appropriate to the environment and to themselves.

4. Forest School aims to promote the holistic development of all those involved, fostering resilient, confident, independent and creative learners.

5. Forest School is run by qualified Practitioners who continuously maintain and develop their professional Practice.

6. Forest School uses a range of learner-centred processes to create a community for development and learning.